Affiliation: School of Physics, Southeast University
Address: 2 Southeast University Road, Jiangning District, Nanjing, 211189, China
Office: Rm. 111, Tian Jia Bing Bldg. (North), Southeast University (Jiu Long Hu Campus)
Email: shanshan.cao[AT]seu.edu.cn
Education
- 2009/08 - 2014/08 Duke University, Ph.D.
- 2005/09 - 2009/06 Nanjing University, B.S.
Work experience
- 2026/06 - present Southeast University, Professor
- 2020/08 - 2026/05 Shandong University, Professor
- 2016/09 - 2020/08 Wayne State University, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- 2014/09 - 2016/08 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Service
- 2026, Co-chair of C3NT Workshop on Jet-Soft Dynamical Medium Interaction, Wuhan, China (link)
- 2026, Chair of The 1st Workshop on Jet and Heavy Quark Physics (JAQ 2026), Wuhan, China (link)
- 2023, Chair of QCD and Medium to High Energy Nuclear Physics Summer School, Qingdao, China (link)
- 2023, Poster Prize Committee member of LHCP 2023 Conference, Belgrade, Serbia (link)
- 2022, Organizer of Jet Quenching in the Quark-Gluon Plasma Workshop, Trento, Italy (link)
- 2019 - 2020, Convener of the Statistics Working Group of the JETSCAPE Collaboration (link)
- 2017 - 2018, Convener of the Physics Working Group of the JETSCAPE Collaboration (link)
- 2015 - 2016, Coordinator of the Heavy Quark Working Group of the JET Collaboration (link)
Teaching
- Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics: Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025, Shandong University
- Frontiers of 21st Century Physics: Spring 2024, Shandong University
- Introduction of heavy-ion physics: Spring 2022, Spring 2024, Shandong University
- College Physics: Spring 2021, Shandong University
- Computational Physics: Winter 2019, Wayne State University
- Introductory Mechanics: Spring 2013, Duke University
Conference Plenary Talks
- 2025/04/28, Jet physics in heavy-ion collisions, The 20th National Conference on Medium and High Energy Nuclear Physics, Shanghai, China (link)
- 2023/12/16, Heavy Flavor Physics, QPT 2023, Zhuhai, China (link)
- 2023/05/23, Recent developments in heavy-ion theory, LHCP 2023, Belgrade, Serbia (link)
- 2021/11/07, Jet and heavy-flavor physics in heavy-ion collisions, ATHIC 2021, Incheon, South Korea (link)
- 2019/11/08, Heavy quark transport: a theoretical overview, Quark Matter 2019, Wuhan, China (link)
- 2018/10/01, Open heavy-flavor probes of QCD matter (theory overview), Hard Probes 2018, Aix-Les-Bains, France (link)
- 2016/06/27, Medium modification of open heavy flavor production in heavy-ion collisions, SQM 2016, Berkeley, USA (link)
- 2015/07/02, Theoretical progress on open heavy flavors in heavy-ion collisions, Hard Probes 2015, Montreal, Canada
Research Grants
- 2026/01/01 - 2029/12/31, Jet-induced medium polarization in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), General Program
- 2023/01/01 - 2023/12/31, QCD and medium to high energy nuclear physics summer school, National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Theoretical Physics Program
- 2022/01/01 - 2025/12/31, Heavy-flavor jet interactions with hot and dense nuclear matter, National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), General Program
- 2021/10/25 - 2026/10/01, National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Startup Grant